Car-door



I. V. KELLY.

(No Model.)

GAR D002.

No. 522,019. Patented June 26, 1894.

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' UNITED vSTATES" PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAc v. KELLY, oF HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

CAR-DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 522,019, dated June 26,1894, Application filed September 8,1893, Serial No. 485,068. (Nomodel.)

exact description of the invention, such as .o is to protect the outeror car door proper from will enable others skilled in the art to' which1t appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon,whIch form a part f this 'specication My invention relates vtoimprovements in grain doors and adjacent parts of a car by which theyare protected.

The doors'are designed tQ be employed on the ordinary boX, or freightcar when used for transportingvgrain inbulk. The object the pressure ofthe grain, and conceal it from j evil disposed persons who oftentimesapproflipriate the. ordinary grain doors for fuel. Doors having slmply asliding movement are {i} found to be objectionable inasmuch as when thecar is to be unloaded, the door must either be raised or slid back; Thisis difficult to do by reason of the pressure of the grain against them,therefore they are often cutout and destroyed.

My invention aims to overcome these objections by providing a door whichcan be opened outwardly to unload the car and slid back out of the'waywhen the car is to be loaded with other freights, or is not in use.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain features/ofconstruction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter,described and claimed.

Figure 1, is a central longitudinal section of a car constructed inaccordance with my `invention showing the same as being provided -tionandpartial section of the door post and adjacent parts.

In the said drawings the reference'numeral 1 designates the sills whichsupport the floor of the car, 2 the plate which su pports'the roof,

3 the intermediate posts, and 4 the door posts. The door posts 4, arecut away from a point about four and one-half feet from the I'loor, onthe inner sides, to the lower ends forming in connection with the innerwalls 5, of the car, a way 6, for the sliding door 7. These inner walls5, consist of a number of boards secured to the intermediate posts, andat the door posts, are secured to a verticalangle bar 9, which b'ar atits lower end is bent upwardly at right angles, forming a short arm 10,which arm is bolted to the car floor. The flange of bar against whichthe ends of boards or inner wall abut, is cut away from that part whichis bent up as described, the bar being left entire to the bottom ofinner wall or lining of car. The upper end of said angle bar is securedto door post above the point where the post is cutaway. To the insideofthe boards forming the inner wall, at their ends, and opposite the anglebar, is secured by wood-screws cured to door post and iirst intermediatepost,`

against which post the vertical board 14 abuts when the door is put awayin its housing. The door posts at the cut-away portion are formed withslots 17, aligned with said hinges so as to permit the latter to slidepast said posts when the doors are closed. At the rear ends, the boards14, are provided with arms 18, the free ends of which are bent outwardlyat a right angle, forming stops to limit the movement of said boardswhen the doors are slid toward the center of the car, to close them.Working in staples 19, securedto door posts, are vertically movable pins20, provided at their upper ends with ropes 21, by

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which they are connected to said posts. When the doors are put away,these pins drop down in front thereof and prevent them from be-1ngshut,while, when said doors are shut, they drop into holes in theupper edges of the boards 14, and thus hold, or lock the doors in suchposition. The doors may also be provided with locking bars for securingthem together when closed. These locking bars are not illustrated in thedrawings, but may be of any of the ordinary or usual constructions.

The operation will be readily understood. When thecars are to be loadedthe doors, and extensions to which they are secured are pushed back orrearwardly into the housing formed by the inner walls of the car, andthe horizontal guide bars, thereby providing an opening at the center ofthe car. When the car is loaded the doors are slid toward the center ofthe car, and locked together by the locking bars and the pins 20.

To unload the car, the doors are unlocked and opened outwardly like anordinary door, turning on their hinges so that access can be had to theinterior of the car. icient quantity of the grain has been removed, thedoors can be closed inwardly, and then slid back in their housings. Inthis position, as they have no outwardly projecting parts, there is noliability of their being injured in any way.

While my invention is more especially designed for use in connectionwith cars carrying grain in bulk, it may be employed for transportingthe same in bags or other packages and also be used with cars carryingother merchandise.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is l. In a grain orother car, the combination with the intermediate posts, the door posts.cut away on their inner lower sides and with the inner walls of the carforming ways, of the outwardly opening and slidable doors and theextensions or boards to which said doors are hinged, working in saidways, substantially as described.

2. In a grain or other car, the combination with the intermediate posts,the doorposts cut away on their inner lower sides and with the innerwalls of the car forming ways, of the outwardly opening and slidabledoors, the extensions to which said doors are hinged, working in `saidways, and the horizon tal guide bars secured to said posts,substantially as described.

3. In a grain or other car, the combination with the plates and sillsand intermediate posts, and the door posts, cut away at their lowerportions, of the inner side walls, the angle bars to which said wallsare secured, the flange of said angle bar that stands at right When asut-` angles to said door posts being cut away at the bottom and theremaining portion from which it was cut bent upward at right angles andsecured to the iioor of the car, said bar being left entire to thebottom of the inner wall of car, the vertical bars secured to said walland to the car floor, and the slidable doors and extensions,substantially as described.

4c. In a grain or other car, the combination with the intermediateposts, the door posts cut away at their lower inner sides and the innerwalls, of the outwardly opening and slidable doors, the slidableextensions to which said doors are' hinged, having a hole in their upperends, and the vertically movable locking pins secured to the door postsand adapted to engagewith the holes in said extensions by gravity,substantially as described.

5. In a grain or other car, the combination with the intermediate posts,the door posts cut away at their lower inner sides, and the inner walls,of the slidable doors and extensions, the hinges secured to said doorsand extensions, the outer leaves of which have their ends bent at aright angle forming stops which engage with the door posts when thedoors are open, substantially as described. u

6. In a grain or other car, the combination with the intermediate posts,the door posts cut away at their lower inner ends or sides` and theinner walls, of the slidable extensions `having holes in their upperends, the slidable doors, the hinges connecting said doors andextensions, the outer leaves of which have their free ends bent at aright angle forming stops adapted to engage with the door posts, and thevertically movable gravity pins connected with the door posts, andadapted to engage with the holes in said extensions, substantially asdescribed.

7. In a grain or other car, the combination with the intermediate posts,the door posts cut away at their lower inner sides, and the inner walls,of the slidable extensions having holes in their upper ends, theslidabledoors, the hinges connecting said doors and extensions, the outer leavesof which have their free ends bent at a right angle forming stopsadapted to engage with the door posts, the vertically movable gravitypins connected with the door posts and adapted to engage with the holesin said extensions, and the horizontal guide bars secured to said posts,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof Iattix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ISAAC V. KELLY` Witnesses:

E. E. WILLIAMS, P. W. SCOTT.

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*Correction in Letters Patent No. 522,019.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 522,019, granted June26, 1894, upon the .applieetion'of Isaac V. Kelly, of Huntington, WestVirginia, the title of the in ven'tion was erroneously written andprinted Oar-Doors, Whereas the said title should .have been Written andprinted GrawDoors and that the said Letters Patent should be read Withthis correction therein that the lsame may conform to the records of theease in the Patent Office. I

Signed, eountersigned, and sealed this 3d day of July, A. D. 1894.

JN0. M. REYNOLDS,

[SEAL] Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

Gountersigned Y JOHN S. SEYMOUR,

Commissioner of Patents.

